Mr. Nguyen Van Chuong, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee, Head of the Organizing Committee concluded the meeting.

Cultural - Tourism Week of Hoa Binh Province in 2019 takes place from 6 - 10/12 including a series of activities: The opening arts program with the theme "Hoa Binh - epic region"; the contest "Beautiful people of origin Muong”; Art Festival with the theme "Hoa Binh - country, people"; Food Festival and traditional craft performance of ethnic groups; Display and performance of typical cultural Heritage of ethnic groups; Workshop Hoa Binh tourism product development.

This is a large-scale political-cultural event of the province to honor the cultural identity of ethnic groups and the national cultural heritage of Hoa Binh province. The implementation of Hoa Binh Province Culture and Tourism Week in 2019 has received attention from the Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial People's Committee. The Organizing Committee has issued documents on timely management and coordination of Organizing Committee’s members in the implementation.

The Provincial Culture and Tourism Week has attracted the attention of all levels, sectors, local people, domestic and international visitors in all the event's activity chains. More than 500 thousand people participated in social media with the Week of Culture and Tourism of the province; Before and during the event, there were nearly 90,000 domestic visitors and about 1,000 international visitors visiting Hoa Binh province, the revenue from tourism services was about 20 billion VND...

Concluding the meeting, Mr. Nguyen Van Chuong, Vice Chairman of the provincial People's Committee highly appreciated the efforts of the Organizing Committee members to successfully organize the Cultural and Tourism Week in Hoa Binh Province in 2019. Agreeing the construction the idea of organizing the Week of Culture and Tourism of the province once every 2 years and between 2 years should organize related events. Thereby, in order to honor the land, people, potentials, cultural strengths and tourism of the province, contribute to preserving and promoting the local cultural values ​​and promoting potentials, strengths and cultures.

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